RightHandOfIkaros @ RightHandOfIkaros @lemmy.world

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"Concord hurt us really badly and we need the money. Please buy our game so you have to have a PSN account so we can sell your data to third parties."

I'll be real, this sounds like a question a criminal would ask.

Super Metroid.

Surface of Crateria has a thunderstorm for the entire length of the game.

Enhanced Edition mod on PC.

Okay, but to be honest DRM was not really something that was stopping me from buying it in the first place.

Kim would need a brain bigger than the rockets he keeps testing to come up with this idea though.

Or how many ISPs are going to accuse people of illegal internet activity due to constant large data transfers when its literally just a Flight Simulator lol.

Extremely expensive to upgrade to and broadcast. Most places that broadcast NFL games still do it in 1080p instead of 4k. NFL makes a lot of money, but not enough for that.

Plus it would take excitement out of the game and players would have more information than the referees. This would lead to disappointment when a play is called or not called or a foul happens the referees didn't see, etc. This already happens a little bit and NFL fans are heated about it, I don't think this kind of tech is viable for football.

The sport is an experience, and part of that experience is the current way it is broadcast.

Also:

What could possibly be more American than mock battles over an inflated pig carcass with military tech shit?

This is worded in an unnecessarily rude and inflammatory manner.

When Reddit stopped supporting third party apps, some people who moved to Lemmy did use bots to try to transfer content from Reddit to Lemmy.

Unfortunately, Lemmy users are kinda like Luddites when it comes to bots and AI. They're tools that can be very beneficial of course, but Lemmy users treat them all like they're literally worse than Hitler despite the great value of the content they were transferring. The hate, reporting, and blocking of bots and bot accounts was so bad that most people that operated them just gave up completely, and I don't blame them.

Look, I don't like bots that advertise as much as the next guy, but Lemmy has a serious drought of content, even now. And I mean real, valuable knowledge content. I certainly was not and still am not opposed to bot transferring data from Reddit or forums to Lemmy. But this is where I must admit, I am a serious outlier when it comes to Lemmy user demographics.

I pirated NieR Automata having absolutely no idea anything about Yoko Taro or his games.

Long story short, I bought NieR Automata 7 times, NieR Replicant 1.22 3 times (including preordering the more expensive White Snow Collectors Edition), imported a Japanese copy of NieR Gestalt and bought it on the Xbox backwards compatibility store, and spent money on the mobile gacha game not even for characters, but literally just to give Square my money and say "I want more Yoko Taro games."

Nobody can ever convince me that piracy causes companies to lose money long term if they actually make a good product. Piracy is the best thing consumers can do to protect themselves from a bad purchase, and trying to prevent it is a predatory practice to increase sales to people who then cannot return the product for a refund if they don't like it.

Other studies have shown that piracy actually leads to increased sales in video games. Very curious to know who funded this study. I bet they're linked to big game publishers and/or Denuvo themselves.

No seriously, get a dashcam. Everyone should have a dashcam. Its probably one of the most invaluable tthings you can have installed onto your vehicle these days.

If its hovering above the lane and you can drive under it without crashing and it seems like it isn't going to land or inte ding to land, there is no law requiring you to yield but I personally would try to switch lanes and not be directly underneath it.

If it seems like it is going to land, I would yield to it same as a plane landing on a highway, but usually highway police are there to start a traffic break after being radiod by local ATC anyway.

There is no need to put on your hazards, they can see that you have stopped. If they can't, then it doesn't matter since they can't see you.

I would honestly recommend trying to leave the area as quickly and safely as you can, because if it isn't hostile already, it will be when the army arrives.

Rather not, seems like an easy way to phish for Steam account names. Which is granted not particularly hard, but most probably don't want that linked with their Lemmy account.

Numbers and data from the past is still important, but don't ignore everything else to only listen to the data.

Probably recycle the oldest ones because those people will be long dead by then.

But let's not kid ourselves, everyone paying into SS right now is never going to get the benefit of it because it will have collapsed.

$400M, $200M, whatever. Sony lost a crap ton of money. They had to pay staff for a game that was in development for 8 years and they had close to 1000 people on payroll for it at one point.

It definitely cost more than GTA V. I mean, Genshin Impact has a dev cost of over ~$700M and that game was in development for only 3 years, and has been actively developed after release for 4 years. Thats ~$100M per year. Cyberpunk 2077 began development in 2013 and when it released 7 years later in 2020 had a development cost of ~$350M. Concord being in development for 8 years and costing less than $400M would almost be absurd.

Hope they get it right, but I am not holding my breath.

Well as I said, it is my opinion and I have the self-control to be able to play and enjoy gacha games without being financially irresponsible. When I pull for a character in a gacha game, for example, I just skip the animation to go directly to the results. Not only is it faster but it also bypasses the "anticipation building" that the animation and sound effects create. I am glad you have learned for yourself how to have better mental health, but I am saying for me its not about MTX, its more about competition or competitive style games.

Don't get me wrong, I still play competitive games. I love me some Battlefield 4, Forza Motorsport, Dead By Daylight (when the people I play against decide to not be serial harrassers), and others. Its just that I try to view it differently. Again, its only a video game and at the end of the day, I am not going to die over anything in the game, winning or losing or whatever. It can sometimes make me feel bad when I have a long losing streak or if I get harrassed, but when that happens I just turn off that game for a week or two and play something else. I don't have to go to the extreme of uninstalling, but I can understand that some do and that's totally fine.

Well the issue is that some people confuse a want for a need.

Wanting characters is great but the problem comes from being disappointed that you didn't get what you want as fast as you thought you should. The true method of playing a gacha game is like running a marathon, its not a race and you take it slow. Play in your free time, down time, whatever. I don't play those games as my main game, just as a side game. Sometimes I miss a day for the login or a special event or even a character that I really wanted but at the end of the day, its just a video game and I am not going to die without that thing or character I wanted. If I get it, its simply a bonus to the joy I get from playing the game already. I don't play a game long if I don't have fun with it at least more than when I don't.

Some people don't have self control, and I am not saying that the games are not monetized in a predatory way. But I view it no different from actual gachapon: capsule toys. You know, like a gumball machine, but the little plastic ball that has a random small toy or stickers inside. You pay, turn the knob, and you always win something, you just don't know what. To me, I dont consider that the same as gambling like with a slot machine. That's just my opinion, and I sure I am in the minority with that, and with my overall attitude towards gacha games in general.